Remember when a box of crayons was all you needed? Draw yourself a flower, the way you would have at seven. Once it's ready, it hands you a question for the child you were. Answer it, and your flower joins our garden.
step one
Make your flower
Petal shape
How many petals?
Petal crayon
Middle crayon
Leaves
Wobble the stem
Draw right on the paper. Don't worry about it being good. Seven-year-old you never did.
Crayon
Crayon size
your flower
step two
Your flower asks
step three
Pass a flower on
Your flower is planted. Here's a card of it to keep, or to send to someone who could use a little recess today. They'll get to grow their own.
The questions in this garden are the kind children answer freely when they feel safe enough to. That safety does not happen by chance. In the conflict-affected regions where we work, childhood has to make room for a lot, and the people who hold that room together every day are teachers.
Through the Teach to ELICIT Fellowship, our fellows spend two years in partner schools learning to be a steady, healing-centred presence for children. If you can, donate any amount that feels right to keep this work going. ₹500 is a lovely place to start, and every rupee is felt.
It would honestly mean the world to us, and to the children and teachers we get to sit beside.
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the garden
What grown-ups told little them
Every flower here was made by someone, with their answer floating above it. Yours grows here the moment you plant it.
this garden grows because of teachers
We work with teachers in conflict-affected regions, so more children get a classroom where they feel safe enough to ask anything. If you'd like to help, donate any amount that feels right. ₹500 is a lovely place to start.
